Mark Nepo Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
More Mark Nepo quote about:
- Being Human,
- Birds,
- Challenges,
- Compassion,
- Dreams,
- Earth,
- Effort,
- Energy,
- Feelings,
- Giving,
- Heart,
- Inspirational,
- Journey,
- Joy,
- Listening,
- Meetings,
- Miracles,
- Pain,
- Soul,
- Tradition,
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“We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.”
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“I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.”
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“The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.”
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“I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.”
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“We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.”
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“…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)”
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“When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.”
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“The life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our way to the sacred.”
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“The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.”
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“To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.”
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“There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.”
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“Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.”
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“The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.”
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“We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.”
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“In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.”
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“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”
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“The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.”
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“If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.”
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“Have the # life you want by being fully present to the life you have.”
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“To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.”
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“Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.”
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“Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.”
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“Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.”
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“Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.”
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“The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
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“What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? ... Tomorrow you could die ... but today you are precious and rare and awake ... Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.”
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“It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.”
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“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”
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“Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred”
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